斯坦博格编著的《有限群的表示论(英文版)》是一部为大学高年级本科生和低年级研究生编写的教科书，内容主要涉及群表示论的各个方面。阅读本书所需背景知识包括线性代数，群论、环论基础知识，书中有意省略模理论，Wedderburn理论和张量积等内容，取而代之的加入离散傅里叶分析。

1 Introduction

2 Review of Linear Algebra

 2.1 Basic Definitions and Notation

 2.2 Complex Inner Product Spaces

 2.3 Further Notions from Linear Algebra

3 Group Representations

 3.1 Basic Definitions and First Examples

 3.2 Maschke's Theorem and Complete Reducibility

4 Character Theory and the Orthogonality Relations

 4.1 Morphisms of Representations

 4.2 The Orthogonality Relations

 4.3 Characters and Class Functions

 4.4 The Regular Representation

 4.5 Representations of Abelian Groups

5 Fourier Analysis on Finite Groups

 5.1 Periodic Functions on Cyclic Groups

 5.2 The Convolution Product

 5.3 Fourier Analysis on Finite Abelian Groups

 5.4 An Application to Graph Theory

 5.5 Fourier Analysis on Non-abelian Groups

6 Burnside's Theorem

 6.1 A Little Number Theory

 6.2 The Dimension Theorem

 6.3 Burnside's Theorem

7 Group Actions and Permutation Representations

 7.1 Group Actions

 7.2 Permutation Representations

 7.3 The Centralizer Algebra and Gelfand Pairs

8 Induced Representations

 8.1 Induced Characters and Frobenius Reciprocity

 8.2 Induced Representations

 8.3 Mackey's Irreducibility Criterion

9 Another Theorem of Burnside

 9.1 Conjugate Representations

10 Representation Theory of the Symmetric Group

 10.1 Partitions and Tableaux

 10.2 Constructing the Irreducible Representations

11 Probability and Random Walks on Groups

 11.1 Probabilities on Groups

 11.2 Random Walks on Finite Groups

 11.3 Card Shuffling

11.3.1 The Riffle Shuffle

 11.4 The Spectrum and the Upper Bound Lemma

References

Index